HC Seeks Delhi Govt Reply On Path Labs

NEW DELHI, 16 NOV 2020:

 

Delhi High Court has sought AAP government's reply on a plea for contempt proceedings against its officials for failure to regulate online pathology labs. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva asked the counsel for Delhi government to take instructions and listed the matter for further hearing on January 29.

 

The court was hearing a plea seeking contempt of court against Delhi chief secretary, secretary, ministry of health and family welfare, directors general of health service and ICMR for allegedly failing to comply with the court's August 6 order to take action against illegal online health service aggregators operating in the city and to regulate online pathological labs.

 

The plea submitted that the online aggregators such as "healthian" and "1mg"' are operating illegally in Delhi, playing with the lives of the common people and must be banned. It said the government has completely failed to take appropriate legal action against them despite the direction.

 

The court had earlier this year directed authorities to initiate action in accordance with law against any illegal online health service aggregators.The Times Of India